How can I find out if something is musculoskeletal?

[RebelliousHoping]

Hi,

Short history
Debridement surgery 27/4/25 to remove ball of fluid
Bed bound until 09/5/25
Catheter out 12/5/25
Blood thinners finished 15/5/25
Discharge from hospital 16/5/25 with oral antibiotics finished 24/5/25 and leg/foot still bandaged up like mummy
Left hospital with no clear official answer what the infection was or connected to
all speculation and quite contradictory recording to what I was told verbally on day.
GP has marked their record as cellulitis
District nurse/s say Hematoma and negative opinion about future plastics covering the back area
Cannot get shoe on damaged leg and feeling housebound past 2pm
At the mo I have Dads old big feet slipper on
Possibly query thrush? going on
Opening bowels up to five times a day (solid)
Eating and drinking fluids well
No sickness, colour back in face, sensation back in toes
Right leg unaffected
Sleep totally distorted

Cannot take any stronger painkiller then paracetamol as I’m desperately trying to keep my weight from rising whilst immobile.

I may have been a naughty girl in last few days I do a walk each day to prevent any future blood clots. Yesterday was my longest walk I admit with the aid of a rollator, what in my absolute fitness would take 25 mins took 1 hour.

I feel a bit whoozy on standing but put this down to all the limited mobility over past month but I’m growing concerned about what feels like muscle strain at the back of injured leg when I get up from sofa/bed, only since I’ve been trying to be more mobile since Saturday (I just don’t like the thought of returning to my remote job with a real poor level of mobility) is there any way I can self refer to physio and they can whip the bandage off to see if physio would help?
like if this was a bad back situation?

The therapy team contacted me start of last week saying they’d be out soon to the home but couldn’t give me a date. But there is a physio organisation I can self refer to.

I would not be asking armchair physicians on this site the questions you are asking. Really, you need to push your medical team that treated your injury/infection to give you definitive answers and not conflicting, incomplete ones.

Anyone speculating here on what is going on with you, especially given we only have your immediate history and nothing of your long-term medical history, could send you down a path that could actually impact your health negatively.

Painkillers are not in themselves going to make you put on weight.

if you’re in pain then please consider taking painkillers.

i don’t know your medical history but yes you can self refer to physio and or get private physio. It helps if you have some code words to tell them as often they specialise in particular things. So tell them the code words the nurses/doctors have been using.

shoes - I bought some crocs and similar a couple of sizes up.

Thank you, I will try and get a GP appointment tomorrow and show the GP what I wrote as short history and ask them to delve into all what has gone on.

I did copy in the GP surgery when I tried to make a PALS query whilst an inpatient and started keeping a diary of events.

Just completely lost at sea.